Why dont you prove me wrong?
ok I will..
1st...I have spent all of my working life in show biz I hold a masters degree in technical theatre/film.
that includes audio/video and film audio recording.
also my dad was a country singer ,we had our own home studio.
that being said, I think I know a thing or two about debunking a bullshit recording...
you said:"The guy was only six freakin feet away from me...
and had no idea i was recording.
the venue was a small restaurant,very small"--vamp
Total bullshit... the speaker had the recorder so close to his mouth that even an untrained ear can hear the pop of his lips and the hiss of his breath. there is no way to achieve that effect with a cheap recorder from six feet away...
2.the speaker is using a STAGE WHISPER. not a normal or loud speaking voice..
3. everybody knows this, but for the sake of accuracy the speaker is affecting a accent ...very amateurishly I might add.
"I was doing stage prep behind him while he was speaking to a closed group."--vamp
AGAIN TOTAL BULLSHIT... IF YOU WERE BEHIND THE "SPEAKER" then the sound quality would have a different tone, it would be flatter sounding. the higher pitches would be dampened (muffled).
if the speaker was speaking to a group where are the background sounds ?
like glasses clinking, chairs moving the sound of silverware other conversations, music?
no "Latino"restaurant on earth does not have music playing all the time.
Again if you were on stage, you would be at a slightly higher elevation and at an angle to the speaker, that again would change the quality of the sound ..
there is no re verb or echo that you would expect as a stage is built to push sound out and away from it's self...
there are no sounds of band equipment being set (I'm assuming that's what you meant by stage prep)...
so from a real tech guy's pov your recording is a steaming pile..